Sometimes I read Guideposts Magazine...and sometimes what I read is pretty inspiring or challenging.

Here are a few quips...



"Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action...What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for and so bring about, as far as that power lies in us."

--John Polkinghorne, The God of Hope and the End of the World



"Deep faith is paranoia turned inside out. It is open instead of closed...It allows us to trust ourselves and others even if we and they have proven untrustworthy in the past."

--Thomas Moore, The Soul's Religion



And this one...well these 2...left me silenced.



"Prayer is a choice. For us to pray, to give thanks, or to voice our questions and doubts shows that we are choosing to leave an opening in our spirits. Without this opening, there is no vessel, no place into which God can breathe."

--Joanna Laufer, Inspired Lives: Exploring the Role of Faith and Spirituality in the Lives of Extraordinary People


"Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference."

--Max Lucado